Illustrated catalogue of the fifth series of 100 paintings by old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools : being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which contains about 1500 original pictures by ancient and modern artists
A 1899 Paris sale catalogue from the Sedelmeyer Gallery, listing 100 old master paintings of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English schools for dealers, collectors and museum buyers. The plates are halftone photographs of paintings, two to a page, mostly half-length portraits, genre interiors and mythological scenes with heavy shadow and soft grey tone, useful for period portrait heads, costume detail and dark-ground figure compositions.
